More Glaciers

No, I cannot stop writing about glaciers. Once you see these they will be all you think about, too.

Glacier stats:

Perito Moreno
1 mi. wide (each 'snout')
200 ft. high
30 miles long

Upsala
7 miles wide
200 ft. high
40+ miles long
--This is the largest glacier in South America

Spegazzini
1 mi. wide
400+ feet high
18 miles long


Upsala: This is a monster. It goes on and on. Just enormous.
And receding very rapidly. The boat stopped at one point and
we were told that the glacier used to reach as far as 'here' as
recently as Reagan's 2nd term. It was so many miles from
the current 'snout' we couldn't even see the glacier yet.


Spegazzini: The other beast. This thing was so tall.


More Spegazzini. The weather is very changeable.


Still Spegazzini. See how the weather has changed in just
a few minutes? This was our companion boat. The boat
was pretty darned close to the glacier.


Onelli glacier. Doesn't compare to it's neighbors.


Three glaciers meeting.

These truly are the greatest natural wonders I've ever seen and by a long shot. Nothing comes even close.

And the cold wind that whips off these things. I was literally blown over. I fell right on top of an Italian lady. It was mortifying. I think she thought I was tackling her. What's worse it you could see the wind coming at you like a little tornado. But I had no idea it was so strong!!!

Once you have seen things like this it's heartbreaking to know how we are destroying this planet. If everyone in the world could see this there would be no need to negotiate how to manage climate change. It would just get done. Period.

There was something like this on an earlier post but it's just so cool:
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/library/blArgspacepix3f.htm